07/07/2015: After 7 wonderful years, Alessandro Fedrizzi is leaving us to take up a Readership at Heriot-Watt
university. Wishing you and your family all the best at the new gig Sandro, and you are very welcome back here anytime! Your new lab looks like it'll be a thing of
beauty, so we're very much looking forward to research visits.

09/06/2015: What a week! Many congratulations to Alessandro Fedrizzi, who was awarded today a
EPSRC Quantum Technology Fellowship by the UK government! Alessandro is moving to
Heriot-Watt university as a Reader, and will use this Fellowship to study "QuigaByte-Gigahertz-clocked telecom cluster states for next generation quantum photonics".
At £1.2M, *plus* contributions from his new uni, this is worth more than an Australian Laureate Fellowship—a fantastic result!

08/06/2015: Many congratulations to our former PhD student and postdoc, Ben Lanyon, who was
awarded this evening one of the 2015 START Prizes; up to 1.2M€, it is "the
most important and prestigious Austrian research prize for junior scientists". A fantastic achievement!

20/05/2015: There is a wonderful article in Nature today by Zeeya Merali,
Quantum physics: What is really real?. Sub-titled "A wave of
experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness" it includes quotes from Alessandro, Martin, and Andrew: go check it out!

22/04/2015: One of the Nature editors, Leonie Mueck, has a great article today in Nature Chemistry titled
Quantum Reform. It looks at the potential, and history, of quantum simulation in quantum
chemistry, and cites articles from our lab and from Ivan Kassal's PhD. Check it out!

01/04/2015:Aleksandrina Nikolova starts her PhD in the QT Lab today, joining us from Royal Holloway, University of
London. Welcome aboard Aleksandrina!

23/03/2015: Good news for the quantum technology community: today the UK government today announced their
National strategy for quantum technologies, part of which is
their £270M investment first announced in 2013. This article on the announcement in the
International Business Times
made us smile: to illustrate Quantum Technology in the UK they used a photo from our lab! (But Matthew is British, so we guess it's OK).

15/03/2015: There's a very fun and informative FQXI podcast today with Alessandro Fedrizzi and Martin Ringbauer,
Quantum Reality Check, which includes a subtle
Thunderbirds reference, conversation about cats & regular QT Lab visitor
Terry Rudolph, and card-playing. Go have a listen, it's well worth the time!

04/03/2014: Our quantum dynamics paper is one of six Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Martin, Chris, Kavan, Alexei and Alessandro!

20/02/2015: There is an excellent article today in The New York Times' Sunday Review by Edward Frenkel,
The Reality of Quantum Weirdness. I never thought I'd see our
quantum measurements and Kurosawa’s Rashomon in the same essay—love it!

19/01/2015: Today is the official Opening Ceremony of the
International Year of Light at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris. There are 1500
delegates attending from around the world: Andrew White is one of the two Australian invitees, and is quite looking forward to it!

05/01/2015: A very warm welcome to Nicolas Quesada who is visiting us for the next two
months from the University of Toronto. Welcome aboard Nicolas!

05/01/2015: What better way to start the year than announce that Nor Azwa Zakaria has joined the QT Lab from
the University of Malaysia Terengganu. Welcome Azwa!

2014

11/12/2014: Many congratulations to Martin Ringbauer, whose talk on "Measurements on the Reality of the Wavefunction" won the Prize for Best
Student Talk at the 21st Australian Institute of Physics Congress. Now that's the way to end the year!

19/09/2014: Warmest congratulations from us all to Markus Rambach, winner of the 2014 School of Mathematics and Physics Postgraduate Research
Poster Competition! Markus joins QT Lab alumni Matthew Broome and Ben Lanyon as recipients of the award, but his prize is the best yet: $750 to spend on your
next research trip—thoroughly well deserved and have fun with it Markus!

10/04/2014: Our holonomic phase paper is one of four Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Juan, Matthew and Devin!

15/01/2014: Our joint-quantum-measurement paper is one of seven Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Martin, Devon, Cyril, Matthew and Alessandro!

2013

04/12/2013: There's a great Viewpoint today by Christine Silberhorn on our new paper—and related papers by the groups of Gerd Leuchs
and Roman Schnabel— Sharing Entanglement without Sending It. Check it out!

17/06/2013: Our photon-source paper is one of three Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Olivier and Marcelo!

14/06/2013: Today we bid a fond farewell to
Olivier Gazzano who is
returning to France to hand in his PhD. Thank you Olivier, we had a blast and come back anytime! (Also, don't let Marcelo
take you out drinking before your 22:30 flight ... oh, too late).

22/05/2013: There's a nice article at FQXIDiscord in the Quantum World that mentions—amongst many
other things—our experimental work on quantum discord. Surf on over and have a read!

16/05/2013: For those of you interesting in all things quantum computing, go read Scott Aaronson's blog post
D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge. The tl;dr version:
good news. It's finally possible—modulo some reasonable assumptions—to infer the presence of
entanglement in a D-Wave device, athough not what kind, or how much. bad news. D-Wave have showed no speed
advantage whatsoever for quantum annealing over classical simulated annealing. terrible news. D-Wave's egregious
hype is very destructive.

02/05/2013: Andrew provided comments to the ABC on the excellent paper by Sven Rogge and his team
published in Nature today, Positive spin in
quantum discovery. Congratulations Chunming, Sven and the rest of the team!

14/04/2013: A very warm welcome to
Olivier Gazzano who is
visiting us for the next two months, as part of our collaboration with the wonderful lab of
Pascale Senellart. Welcome
aboard Olivier!

04/04/2013: Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Hoj, was on ABC Radio this morning reporting that
UQ Scientists receive Australian Academy of Science Fellowships. Have a listen! Andrew wants to note
that—despite the lede—no actual buckets of money are involved ... although he's not averse to some if folk are
feeling inclined that way.

02/01/2013: Happy New Year! photonics.com has a report on our BosonSampling paper, with a title that the
Terminator folk should consider for the next film in the franchise:
Rise of the Boson-Sampling Computer.

21/12/2012: And in the UK, Devin Powell has a nice News article in Nature that discusses the Oxford
BosonSampling results, with a mention of ours in a sentence but a great photo of Matthew heading the article,
Photon devices could outperform ordinary computers.

20/12/2012: Well that was quick! Jacob Aron of New Scientist has written an article about our and
Oxford's Science papers,
Victorian counting device gets speedy quantum makeover.
(In it he has promoted Matthew to group leader: Andrew is quite happy with this as he plans to go back to the lab and let
Matthew get on with the paperwork...)

20/12/2012: Our paper on
Photonic Boson Sampling in a Tunable Circuit was published online today in Science. It's a collaboration with
Scott Aaronson and Justin Dove at MIT: it's our first paper with computer scientists, and their first paper with
experimentalists! Congratulations one and all. (Click on the photo to go to the UQ press release).

22/11/2012: Our 2010 quantum chemistry paper was the feature today of a fascinating editorial in the
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry,
Quantum chemistry reloaded.

22/03/2012:
Our paper on Two-photon quantum walks in an elliptical direct-write waveguide array was highlighted
today by the New Journal of Physics in the Highlights of 2011 collection:
the second year running that one of our papers has been highlighted! “Selected by the editors, the sixty-four articles featured span some of the most cutting-
edge areas of physics, and collectively represent the most cited, most downloaded and most influential articles published in NJP in 2011.” Many congratulations
to Matthew, Jimmy, and both the teams at Macquarie and UQ, this is an outstanding result!

2011

13/12/2011: Congratulations to our long-time collaborator Sae Woo Nam who today was awarded the
Department of Commerce Gold Medal, the highest honorary award granted by the
Secretary of Commerce. A wonderful result and well deserved!

14/11/2011: Many congratulations to Marcelo Almeida, who today was awarded an Australian Research Council
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award: this is a
fantastic result Marcelo and we're all excited and proud!

07/09/2011: Well it's been quite a year for the intersection of quantum and pop culture. A paper this week in Science by our former PhD student,
postdoc, and much missed colleague Ben Lanyon, was mentioned today in a
tweet by Stephen Fry!
Congratulations Ben on both the superb paper, and the call-out by Stephen Fry—is this the modern British equivalent of being recognised by royalty? ☺

01/09/2011: There's a story today in New Scientist on a nice recent paper by Mariantoni and colleagues at UCSB,
Quantum computer chips pass key milestones; it contains a few
colour comments by Andrew (who in his defence, did so late at night his time!).

01/06/2011: There's a nice News Feature in Nature today,
Quantum computing: The power of discord. It looks at recent work on quantum
discord—a newish kind of quantum correlation—including our paper experimental paper from 2008. Definitely worth a read! One important correction: the
opening line of the article makes it sound like I built our experiment, when of course the hard yards were done by Ben, Marco, and Marcelo—all congratulations
are due to them!

25/05/2011: Our collaborator Alán Aspuru-Guzik gives an interview at physicsworld.com,
Quantum computers tackle chemistry and biology. Go check it out, it's only 4 minutes long and does a
nice job of explaining why we find our work on quantum simulation so compelling!

11/04/2011: Andrew has been awarded a University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship! A list of all the awardees can be found
in this nice article on cleaning up mining waste using bugs.

...if excellent papers are defined as the top-10% most-highly cited papers in a field, on the basis of the null hypothesis a value of 10% of all papers published from
a city would be expected as belonging to this category.

The authors then calculate the standardized residual for every city in the world in 2008 that published a top-10% paper, using
Z=(observed-expected)/√expected (Z=1 indicates the city is publishing the expected number of
top-10 papers). They note—and I'm sure we all heartily agree!—that:

From a policy perspective, it may pay off for the sciences within a country to identify (by these visualization methods) and expand regional centers of excellence (for
example, with specific financial support). In our opinion, one should not subsidize size, but those centers should be fostered where the observed number of excellent
papers exceeds the expected numbers.

If you are a technology enthusiast you might find yourself interested enough to want to read it. You won’t be able to though because you have to have a subscription to
read the journal. That may be a bummer but the future of academic journals is creative commons licenses. Scientific information like this will become more widely
available to the public sooner rather than later.

Congratulations everyone, and hopefully one day all the co-authors can meet in person, preferably over a nice meal!

02/03/2011: Our paper on Matchgate quantum computing and non-local process analysis was
highlighted today in the New Journal of Physics Best of 2010—“a special
collection of papers that represents the breadth and excellence of the work published in the journal last year. The articles were selected for their presentation of
outstanding new research, receipt of the highest praise from our international referees and the highest number of downloads last year.” Congratulations Sven,
Alessandro and Aephraim, that's an outstanding result!

05/01/2011: Our paper on Engineered optical nonlinearity for a quantum light
source was published in this month's Optics Express (but has an official publication date of December 20, 2010—do we count this as a 2010 or a 2011
paper?). Congratulations Aggie and Alessandro on what I'm sure will be the first of many fruitful collaborations!

1/10/2010: James Owens has been awarded a honourable mention and a special
prize for his oral presentation at the UQ Undergraduate Research Conference! Congratulations James, this is a great result that recognises all
your hard work—enjoy spending the prize money!

23/09/2010: Our regulator collaborator Alán Aspuru-Guzik has been named one of the
2010 Young Innovators under 35 by Technology Review! Congratulations
Alán! Video here in an awful embedded format. Slide the scroller at the bottom of the screen
until you get to TR35 Session 2, Sep 23 2010, then enjoy. (Unless you're reading this via an iOS device, as the video is in flash—kinda ironic for a tech
conference!).

14/09/2010: James Owens has been nominated to represent the Faculty of Science at the Inaugural UQ
Undergraduate Research Conference. This is wonderful news and came entirely out of the blue: best of luck James!

23/07/2010: Well that was difficult! The posters at QCMC were simply superb, and after much discussion the judges came back to the Centres to ask for two
prizes. It was Andrew's great pleasure to award these this afternoon to Stuart Szigeti and
Stefanie Barz—many congratulations to you both!

24/05/2010: Andrew was interviewed by Simon Lauder in The World Today, A few
atoms bring quantum computing closer, about a nice paper published today by Michelle Simmons and her group in Nature Nanotechnology. For the very definition
of eloquent, listen to his reaction when asked if this paper shows that the silicon approach is the one to put your money on (to be fair, he'd only had 2 hours sleep
at that stage...)

In fact, it was the only article highlighted for February! All the articles are free until the end of June, so if you haven't done so,
go download it now.

13/04/2010: Andrew was named one of thirty-one Prestige Fellows at the
University of Queensland in a ceremony tonight. Unfortunately he missed the celebration due to a particularly recalcitrant toddler—such is life!

21/01/2010: Goodness! There are articles on our Quantum Chemistry work in Chinese on cnBeta.com,
用量子计算机做大学习题, and in Israeli in the Hayadan,
מחשב קוונטי לחישוב האנרגיה של מימן. Although the team speak and
read seven languages between us, they don't (yet) include Mandarin or Hebrew, so we've no idea what the articles actually say!

The Australians! Wasn't that island an almost depopulated prison colony of England, when Mexico, still called New Spain, was proud of its Royal University, of
scientists and researchers informed in physics and chemistry of the state of the art of the XVIII-th century?

A big cheery g'day from all us convicts to our Mexican readers! (Seriously though, our teams were funded by both the Australian and US governments, and are made up of
folk from 8 nations across 4 continents: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Iran, Italy, Mexico, the UK and the USA. Science is truly international.)

16/01/2010: The Palestine Telegraph has run Andy Extance's article in its
Panorama Section.

15/01/2010: Andy Extance has a great article at Chemistry World,
Quantum computer hits hydrogen bullseye. What a wonderful title! However Andrew wishes to
say that he didn't concede, so much as stress, that a system with 522 gates isn't currently possible...

02/01/2010: The 10 Biggest Questions in Physics was broadcast today as part of
Quirks and Quarks holiday offerings. Andrew hasn't had a chance to listen yet, but is bravely putting up the link anyhow... Update. Oh, that was fun!
There was a pretty clear division between big questions about big things and big questions about small things...

01/01/2010: Happy New Year! Farewell to two-thousand-and-nine and welcome to twenty-ten.

04/12/2009: The Australian Academy of Science have awarded Andrew the
2010 Pawsey Medal for outstanding research in physics. He's deeply humbled, and
very thankful to all his past and current colleagues for the chance to work with them on some really wonderful science!

30/11/2009: After nearly 4 years, Benjamin Lanyon is leaving us to join Rainer Blatt as a Postdoctoral Scientist in the Institut für Experimental
Physik at Universität Innsbruck. The very best of British to you Ben! We're a little unsure how we'll cope with all the extra office space and silence ... so
please come back soon! (And remember, we're holding your surfboard hostage).

30/10/2009: Perimeter Institute has signed an agreement with the Universities of Queensland and Sydney, and Griffith University,
to strengthen collaborative research in quantum foundations. Excellent, extra theorists to bother!

20/10/2009:Ben Lanyon, or as I should now say, Doctor Ben Lanyon was awarded his PhD today. Many congratulations
Ben, it is thoroughly well deserved!

17/10/2009: Tonight is the Canadian premiere of The Quantum Tamers,
a documentary sponsored by the Perimeter Institute that features a dozen or so quantum folk from around the world,
including our very own Gerard Milburn and Andrew—who are both waiting
to see the film with some trepidation! Update. It was both fun and good! Whew, now for some drinks...

17/10/2009: For the Institute of Quantum Computing's open day,
Andrew was part of a 6-person panel discussion on Quantum Information. A big thanks to
Joseph Emerson for great moderation, film-clip DJ'ing and audience interaction.

15/10/2009: As part of the Perimeter Institute's 10th anniversary celebrations,
Andrew was one of a 7-person panel discussing "Quantum to Cosmos", at the Mike Lazaridis Theatre in Waterloo. It was recorded
by TVO and webcast. A big thanks to Australia's own Wilson da Silva for MC'ing, although he could have spared Andrew the
"Crocodile Dundee" reference!

15/10/2009: Andrew was one of a 10-person panel discussing "The 10 Biggest Questions in Physics", at the Glenn
Gould Theatre in Toronto. It was recorded by CBC's Quirks and Quarks—which, along with ABC's Science Show are the two longest-running science shows
in at least the English-speaking world—and will be broadcast sometime in the New Year. A big thanks to
Jim Handman and Bob
McDonald who made the entire event a lot of fun!

04/09/2009: There's a nice article today in New Scientist on some work by Jeremy O'Brien (a QT Lab Alumnus! We should get T-shirts made), and his team at
Bristol, where they have repeated our 2007 Shor's algorithm experiment, replacing the free-space circuitry with
integrated-optics. There's comments
from Jeremy—of course!—and also from Dan Browne and Andrew, who were authors on the two earlier Shor papers.

18/06/2009: Ben Lanyon is the subject of a nice article today by Machines Like Us,
"A quantum leap". (I've often wondered when people use this expression—do they
realise it can refer to the smallest possible leap?). Look for the cool photo and the even cooler description of banging things!

07/02/2009: Well that went all too quickly. After a great visit, Prof. Aephraim Steinberg
is returning to the University of Toronto—enjoy the spring weather Aephraim, and we'll have to get you back again soon!

2008

06/12/2008: Oh this is lovely. Look at the article listed immediately before ours on
PhysOrg—can you believe we ranked more highly? Who knew we were more interesting than promiscuous Arts students?

05/12/2008: Today's PhysOrg has a nice article on our recent mixed-state quantum computing experiment:
Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be necessary. Love the opening line: "It is a truth universally
acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement."

01/12/2008:Matthew Broome has joined the QT Lab from the University of Warwick. Welcome Matthew!

20/06/2008: Andrew's profile is being featured on the front page of Nature Asia this week.

24/05/2008: There is a simply wonderful write-up of our shrimp paper by Andrew's favourite blogger, PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame,
The superior eyes of shrimp. (And yes, he was Andrew's
favourite blogger even before he wrote about our paper!)

23/05/2008: The New York Times reported on our shrimp paper! See
A different viewpoint in the Science Section.

19/05/2008: Well that was fun! Andrew was just interviewed about the shrimp by
Red Symons for ABC Melbourne's morning radio show. Best, and most unexpected,
question: "What would you do if you had genital-fingers?..." :)

15/05/2008: ...And now there's a Softpedia article on our shrimp vision paper,
Shrimp See All Types of Polarized Light. It's nicely
written, but gets the same quote wrong as the Physics World article ... hmm!

24/04/2008: We seem to be tickling Dave Bacon's title bone, he once again
quite likes the title of one of our recent arxiv
papers, this time The secret world of shrimps: polarisation vision at its best. (He also thinks it's fascinating, which again is nice!)

2007

15/12/2007: Despite what you may
read, quantum computing will
not enable anyone to transmit information faster than the speed of light. You can find an overview of our experiment and its possible implications at
here.

14/12/2007: ZDNet in Asia and
Australia have an article our on
Shor's experiment. Some corrections: it's more correct to say that the information needed to describe n entangled qubits grows exponentially, not the
number of states; and we are funded in part by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, IARPA, not by DARPA. It's easy to see how these things can get
confused!

14/12/2007: Cool! Our work our Shor's experiment made it into Neatorama!

18/9/2007: Gosh, more coverage! There's an article about our paper on Shor's algorithm in today's
Brisbane Times,
Sydney Morning Herald and
The Age. As we say below, our experiment is
interesting in that it demonstrates every stage of Shor's algorithm, particularly the entangling step. It is not scalable in itself, but there is a in-
principle path to scalability which we and our colleagues are investigating to see if and when that's going to be feasible. As Ben Lanyon says "it was incredibly
hard to do" ... so RSA Security don't need to worry just yet!

14/9/2007:Despite the title of today's Ars
Technica article, we'd just like to make it clear that we have never burnt through any graduate students, although we have on occasion fed them too much
coffee. (Indeed, working in a dark lab we try not to let our researchers near bright light, get them wet, and most importantly, never feed them after
midnight...)

14/9/2007: The Register in the UK have a slightly breathless view of our Shor's
paper. Our work does not pose a threat to current, everyday, cryptography, since the time scale for such quantum computation is closer to decades than months,
and may not even be based on our research! It's just too early to tell for sure. You only need to worry about quantum computation today if you are prime-number
encrypting and publicly sending messages that you still want to be secret 20 years from now (i.e. you are paranoid or a government ... ahem.) On the other hand, this
is the first time our work has been directly compared to a James Bond film ...

13/9/2007: Well that didn't take long! Slashdot covers the New Scientist article
which covers our arXiv paper which is still with the referees...

12/9/2007: There's a nice write-up of our work in today's New Scientist blog,
How a quantum computer factorises numbers, which says
"Today, New Scientist reveals details of a device that may go down in history as the forerunner of the quantum computer." Gosh!

20/7/2007: After a successful (and amazingly quick) year, Devon Biggerstaff has finished his Fulbright and is starting a Masters with Kevin Resch at the
University of Waterloo. Good luck Devon, and come back soon!

30/06/2007: Dr Dr Thomas Jennewein from University of Vienna, begins the first of two three-
month visits with the QT Lab. Welcome Thomas!

4/5/2007: After 5 fabulous years, Doctor Nathan Langford (sounds great doesn't it Nathan!) is leaving
us to work as a Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Vienna. Good luck Nathan, and thank you for all the fun!

2/10/2006:Susan Grantham has joined the QT Lab as our new Laboratory Administrator. This is great news
both for us, and any of our collaborators who suffered through our previous attempts at admin. Welcome Susan!

25/8/2006: After 1½ years, Kevin Resch is leaving us to start his own laboratory at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the University of
Waterloo. Congratulations Kevin, and have fun with all your new toys!

7/12/2005:Work by Nathan Langford done during two visits to our collaborators at the University
of Illinois has been listed in the Top 25 Physics Stories for 2005. Congratulations Nathan, Julio, Paul and
the gang!